Word: ring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soon as they got their tickets, which were precisely nine times the normal size. When they took their seats in what is still the world's fourth largest theatre,* they received further premonition of the grandeur that was to come. But when the cylindrical curtain around the protruding ring-stage at last rose, result could only be described by a word from the lexicon of Jumbo's chief comic. Jimmy Durante: "Colossial...
...twists toward rarefied romance, and who employ three acts and much superfluous palaver in the basically simple process of going out and getting married. Nevertheless, all concerned in the dramatization do manage to supply, if not an exciting, at least a quiet, chuckly evening in the theatre. Let Freedom Ring (adapted by Albert Bein; Bein & Goldsmith, producers) is another blow at industrial Bondage & the Bosses. Like most radical literature, "agitprop" drama seems curiously limited not only as to symbolism but as to narrative. The humble workers take it on the chin for a couple of acts, then stage a strike...
...such stuff Let Freedom Ring is made. This time the workers are Carolina mountain folk, well observed by Novelist Grace Lumpkin in her To Make My Bread and well transplanted behind the footlights by Adapter Bein. The mountain folk, frozen out of their hill homes one cold winter, go down to town to work in the cotton mills. There life as "lint heads" is far from the fine things they expected. Tuberculosis gets the men while those women whom pellagra spares are tempted to eke out a living from the wages...
...clan under consideration in Let Freedom Ring is named McClure and is made of tougher fibre than most. Grandpappy ''fit the Yankees," who left three sabre slashes in his side. His daughters had been starved out of their birthplace only when nothing remained to eat except the dog. When his daughters and grandchildren finally revolt against wage cuts in the mill, Grandpappy supplies comic relief with his truculent ways and squirrel rifle. And when the best of his brood is finally pinked on the picket line. Grandpappy sings a hillbilly hymn of hate at the big funeral scene...
...race to find the Inca Empire, whose fame had spread through South America, had even reached Europe. About 1520 a Portuguese soldier named Alejo Garcia led an expedition across Brazil and Paraguay into the Inca country, was killed by his Indian allies on his return. Backed by a shady ring of international speculators, Sebastian Cabot led another group up the Parana River to Paraguay in 1528, sent the representatives of his backers for more support as soon as the first gold and the first llamas were en countered. Fifteen members of his party pushed on, encountered desperate hard ships, crossed...